The Acrasian Blog

The Architecture of Unmaking reads like a fable about the present. Its plot is science fiction, yet its problems feel familiar. People push for perfect control. Language stops lining up with lived experience. Institutions tighten to prevent failure, then crack because they left no room to bend. The book gives these ideas names like the Resolution Horizon, the Great Keeping, and Last Practice, but the mirror is clear. Below is a plain guide to how the story maps to our moment, and what it suggests we do next. The lab is our feeds and dashboards In the book, a research station builds an instrument that tries to see reality with more precision than human thinking can safely handle. The machine forces the world to answer in a form the mind cannot hold, so the team’s language and memory begin to slip. That is an allegory for our attention economy. Every day we try to make sense of society through high-resolution streams of posts, charts, clips, and hot takes. The result often feels like kn...

My new book, The Architecture of Unmaking , is now available at Amazon.com, and should also be available to your local bookseller via Ingram-Spark. The Architecture of Unmaking is my attempt to write fiction that wrestles with first principles. The book explores what happens when human cognition gains a direct interface to quantum reality. If observation shapes outcomes at the smallest scales, what changes when minds can steer that observation with precision. The result is a set of stories about responsibility, meaning, and the cost of power when the observer effect stops being a metaphor and starts becoming a skill. Why I wrote this book I wrote this book to wrestle with the civilizational stakes of human interface with AI. The stories ask what happens when minds can work with machines at the level where choices start to shape reality. I use a quantum interface as the pressure that forces cognitive evolution. When attention can move the needle, culture, law, faith, and daily life al...